Re: [tcljava-user] Helping with Jacl

[Mo D. <su...@ba...>]

On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 11:04:25 -0500
Shawn Boyce <sh...@qc...> wrote:

> Mo,
> 
> What is the current state of Jacl these days? It has been awhile since a new
> release (last is 1.2.6). I see from the CHANGELOG that you are doing
> some work on async I/O, presumably due to the new JDK1.4 functionality.

The current goal is to get fconfigure, encoding, read, write, eof, and others
to work just like the Tcl ones. Things like end of line conversion are not
yet handled in Jacl the same as they are in Tcl. It would also be very nice
to get async IO working before the next release.

> Can I help out? What needs to be done? How do I join the project?

Of course. Any help you could provide would be great. If you know a
bit about Java coding, then join the tcljava-dev list and ask about
which sections of the code need work. Even if you are not a developer,
you could help create a tutorial for beginners (one is badly needed).

cheers
Mo DeJong